Man, 63, killed while trying to fix car on Sawgrass Expressway

FHP investigators were on the scene of a fatal accident on northbound Sawgrass expressway near the Oakland Park Blvd. entrance. The vehicle involved in the accident was broken down partially in the roadway, and the driver was outside of the vehicle attempting to work on his vehicle according to Florida Highway Patrol Sergeant D.A. Sims. The vehicle was struck by a Dodge Ram 3500 pickup truck hauling a trailer with heavy machinery on it as the truck was entering the highway. The victim was struck by his own vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene

FHP investigators were on the scene of a fatal accident on northbound Sawgrass expressway near the Oakland Park Blvd. entrance. The vehicle involved in the accident was broken down partially in the roadway, and the driver was outside of the vehicle attempting to work on his vehicle according to Florida Highway Patrol Sergeant D.A. Sims. The vehicle was struck by a Dodge Ram 3500 pickup truck hauling a trailer with heavy machinery on it as the truck was entering the highway. The victim was struck by his own vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene

A Pembroke Pines man was killed Saturday when a passing truck struck a disabled car he was trying to fix on the shoulder of the Sawgrass Expressway in Lauderhill.

Peter Phillip Rampie, 63, died at the scene of the crash.

Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. D.A. Sims said the disabled car, a 2017 Chevy Cruze, was partially in the northbound travel lane near the entrance ramp from Oakland Park Boulevard after 7 a.m.

A Dodge Ram 3500 pickup truck, hauling a front-loader tractor on a trailer, driven by Sheldon Mullings, 43, of Sunrise, was entering the expressway when it struck the broken down blue car from behind, Sims said.

“[That caused] the vehicle to be pushed into the gentleman working on the car,” Sims said. “[He] was pronounced deceased at the scene.”

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A truck struck a disabled car killing a man trying to repair it, the FHP said.

Charles McLeod, Rampie’s neighbor who has known him for 20 years, said that shock over the sudden death has spread through the neighborhood. Rampie’s car had gone to the shop on Friday and he rented the one involved in the crash.